Rio 2 **
Dir: Carlos
Saldanha. With the voices of: Anne Hathaway, Jesse Eisenberg, will.i.am. 101
mins. Cert: U
The animators at Blue Sky
Studios have form with converting wild beasts into domesticated cash cows:
mammoths in their Ice Age series, now
the macaws of 2011’s rather ordinary Rio.
This wing-spreading sequel dispatches its lovebirds to the Amazon where,
between dodging loggers, they encounter enough of their own kind to make a lie
of the first movie’s premise. Jemaine Clement’s perfidious parakeet Nigel rises
above the bland scripting, but it’s hard to ascribe much art or wit to a
franchise that retains the services of will.i.am as comic relief – and a
thoroughly inorganic talent-show subplot feels like another attempt to groom
youngsters for life in the Cowell jungle.
Rio 2 opens in cinemas nationwide today.
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